Predictions

Hard to call game here between two sides in different places right now. FaZe just returning home from a poor performance at starseries. They really will be disappointed they lost to Fside, a team that is a lot weaker than them. They will be tired, and demotivated perhaps and won’t have had enough time to really work on their mistakes. Mouz have been at a boot camp, practising hard and will come into this game feeling fresh and ready and should hopefully be organised and prepared. This should also make their strongest map even stronger. D2 then Mirage today. I really favour mouz on d2, but Mirage could be a lot closer. For now, I will call LOW mouz D2, and LOW FaZe for Mirage, but I may edit the second one depending on how the first game looks.

mousesports played lots of CS:GO recently, all of their players have played around 80-100 hours in the past two weeks and that’s almost twice as much as FaZe did, obviously it doesn’t matter as much as some people think, but there’s a difference for sure, on top of that FaZe lost to FlipSid3 recently and that’s pretty embarassing, I mean FlipSid3 went 1-20 in maps and then randomly upset FaZe like that, doesn’t really make any sense for me given that FaZe played extremely well before that match.

mousesports didn’t look nearly as good as FaZe in my opinion, they struggled against dignitas multiple times, still managed to win 4 out of 5 maps though, also lost to fnatic, NiP, FaZe and Godsent, tied against Gamers2 and won two matches against Gambit and PENTA, additionally mousesports released kassad (their coach) and it could change a lot, I really don’t know what to expect from mousesports today.

So the first map is dust2 and then it’s mirage, these maps are great for both teams, but as I already mentioned, FaZe looked better than mousesports and actually 2-0’d them quite convincingly in the previous encounter, not having a coach might hurt them too, so I actually feel like FaZe should be favored on both maps and I’d go with a small bet on them twice, that loss against FlipSid3 makes me a bit scared but I’m gonna stick to my initial bet, going with FaZe twice.

Conclusion

So 2nd map between these two and we find ourselves on Mirage. Now if this wasn’t hard enough, Mouz just announced that their coach will no longer be with them and tha tis interesting. Moses was saying on Twitter that before the coach, Mouz was struggling, then they get the coach, get Semi-Finals in EL and now he is gone again. Mouz don’t seem to have the best decision making overall, since like sure Oskar will most likely help the team and what not, however replacing Nex? Meeeh.. Eitherway now that the coach is gone, I am not sure how much he contributed in temr so fin game leading and waht not, however I am not confident in anyone else on that Mouz team calling good strats, so that is a worrying aspect. Then again you could argue that FaZe are not a very deep strat team themselves so maybe they can win just by skill, who knows. Eitherway, FaZe are not in the greatest of form however that is kinda the trend of FaZe, can never count them out nor in and same can be applied with Mouz. Overall I will favor FaZe a bit here since the thing with Mouz, and I think that FaZe edge it map wise too. 55-45 FaZe